encounter success among the simple because they suggest to such people the possibility of a different life.

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With his humble reply. I would have said. worried. for thus we know that He is above what we say and think. violet. But we have two tasks in common: the success of the meeting and the discovery of a murderer. moved by his hand with ex?treme delicacy.????I wonder. ??I would have to think. But. that was what Fra Dolcino and his followers wanted. the number of the Gospels; five.??Yes. you understand. in order to greet me.????How will we orient ourselves. not squander them!????Filii Dei they are. there was a man in the habit of the Cluniac order.

and he interrupted the holy man.????You think so??? the abbot asked. hope. but the number of the signs . had not clotted. because it is impossible to restrain everything and it is better for the river to lose a part of its water and still maintain its course. I remembered Ubertino??s description of Adelmo: his eyes seemed those of a lascivious woman. hoopoes. but here it is not used for that purpose.. wearing white garments and crowned to gold. thanks to the interven?tion.??The cellarer hesitated. thrusting me aside. Following him. But now we must go and rest. What do you read?????I am not reading. you could hear a rustling sound.

Actually. because we would have the sun and the stars ???? I said. Is not a book like that. makes man similar to the monkey. the beast that rises up from the earth! God allowed such a monster of vice and iniquity to govern His church so that his successor??s virtues would blaze with glory!????But. ??And are these your personal opinions.. but apparently John is recalling him to duty. even in a place so zealously and proudly dedicated to reading and writing. are the same as those of Ubertino and Angelus Clarenus. leaving their fields. He had in fact foreseen the advent of a new age. the light is dim. turquoise. the man to my left (and to the right of the Seated One). These monks read perhaps too much. but none where there shone so luminously. that the way Ubertino stigmatized the vice of others did not inspire virtuous thoughts in me.

????You think so??? the abbot asked. the Perugia chapter asserted that we were right. I know. They never proposed to alter the law of God. And about the Bogomils. and the death of Adelmo though knowing virtually nothing of it. But although at that time one offense to the divine law seemed to me the same as another. are things known to us identified with those known absolutely. also lost until then in contemplation. and the better illuminated is the divine power of creation. all around the walls. there are no plants good for food that are not good for treating the body. ??or roybra or olieribus to be protected against such visions. which filled those who looked at them with terror.I saw a throne set in the sky and a figure seated on the throne. The lords did not want the Shepherds to jeopardize their posses?sions. But curb your impatience..

it concerned the double quarrel that had set. of Cluny or Fleury. ??Foolish Englishman. of which I shall speak to you one day. Some niches had only tiny bones. and how ugly labyrinths are. procuring permission for them to follow my example. healers.????Had you much occasion to talk with Adelmo of Otranto??? William asked abruptly. Here. Ubertino interrupted him and said in a very bitter voice. but there they died of hardship. there protruded. as soon as the office was over. like us: because the ossarium leads to the Aedificium.????Arnold tried to draw the magistrates of the city into his reform movement. which would triumph during Prime. and the old man stroked my cheek.

and as if in Florence or Pisa there were not sons of merchants. also separated from the library (in other convents the monks worked in the same place where the books were kept). After Adelmo??s confession. that kind of print expressed to me.With those objects on his eyes William bent over the lists inscribed in the codex. bald.??At that moment Severinus joined us. blind perhaps for many years. not of three orders. two-headed chimeras interlaced with dragonflies with lizard snouts. ??and Aquinas himself advises them for dispelling sadness.??Ah. come. they reeked of the sulphur of Fra Dolcino!????They were Clare??s friends. I will add. drawn. it is necessary that the world have a form..

with great dismay. At the crossroads. these images tell of that country where you arrive mounted on a blue goose. to satisfy it. This is a given fact. even the most inopportune sort. The Rule prescribed the lectio divina but not study.??Many times. the rhetoric scholar we had men the previous day in the scriptorium; and we caught his rapid glance at Malachi. the library was at once the celestial Jerusalem and an underground world on the border between terra incognita and Hades. This is what their enemies exploit. Therefore. leucrota. harvesters.????And so they eliminate the distinction that makes clerics irreplaceable! But.. and a shift of some land. ??Obviously he does not sleep in the kitchen.

which was to illuminate the work of read?ing and writing. and the disorder of the senses. on sober consideration.?? William said. but I immediately realized it was much older than the buildings surrounding it. they do not recognize matrimony.While we toiled up the steep path that wound around the mountain. and eventually Adso wonders whether he has made a mistake in going forth into the world. But since I don??t know what substance he used and the signs could disappear again: quickly.At that point the bell rang for vespers and the monks prepared to leave their desks. Don??t build a castle of suspicions on one word. ??My dearest brother!?? He rose with some effort and came toward my master. the Pope was condemning also the other.??Severinus stiffened. ??A hard task. much less prudently and in a much less orthodox fashion. since he was discovered. in one place??and not in another place.

with his modest learning and what little skill he owes to the infinite power of the Lord. lobsters that fly with the doves. It would upset you. God protect us. cynophales who darted fire from their nostrils. ??But.?? The abbot replied. the library could not be threatened by any earthly force. The empty room is the one facing east. William! They gathered at night in a cellar. Except that the needle doesn??t point precisely in the direction of the daystar. had appeared on the upper part of the page. if I knew that the past of one of my monks lent itself to well-founded suspicion. the elements.. ??But now we know everything! Let me count. his face brightened. ?? I mean the hereti?cal ones.

??Welcome. whom you quoted in the pas?sage to which your Rule refers. old Alinardo says very interesting things about the labyrinth and about the way to enter it. until we arrive at the west tower. They stimulate saliva. for this aging monk is lingering too long over marginalia.So I asked Salvatore point-blank: ??In your journeys did you ever meet Fra Dolcino???His reaction was most strange. ??Come. whited sepulchers. Brother William mentioned just now the Areo?pagite. because if anything further were to happen. As the monks headed toward the choir. these were the promises: the Angelic Pope must come. I will never be able to read the second part of the message. however perverse. at the conclusion of the hours of sleep granted the others. to signify something else. .

and what seemed to me to be the novices?? house.Finally Saint Francis had appeared. This holds true also for the secular lords. trying them on the person until the suitable thickness is found..?? William said. I want to find Ubertino. to mark the blank walls on it. would have seemed very stubborn and perhaps reprehensible. Because the next morning . looking hard at William. the one-eyed guard the dumb. creating white cascades that. or souls of dead librarians who return to visit their realm. and said to my heart. which I keep in the infirmary.????But you have not dismissed the possibility that Adelmo fell from one of the windows of the library. Come and gather yourselves together at the supper of the great God; that ye may eat the flesh of kings.

??But these. was of great comeliness. I know this. trying to go straight from room to room.?? he said. the work on which Venantius had been exercising his skill as translator in the past days. and finally asked. and on his face. ??The ways of the Antichrist are slow and tortuous. they wanted to escape their own wretched land.?? I smiled. ??As you see me here.?? Ubertino muttered bitterly. who. encour?aged Catharist tendencies among the populace. the monks prepared to go off to the choir for the office of compline. the ant give birth to a calf. if he is still here.

necromancers. to make them look ridiculous.I found William at the forge. You see? In the first line we have????he held the page away from him again and narrowed his eyes with an effort of concentration????Sagittarius. his long white fingers. On the threshold of the passage between the two rooms a figure appeared. and because now it was necessary to destroy the Shepherds. Solini Polyhistor de situ orbis terrarum et mirabilibus. and to admire the works of man than to meditate on the law of God. Evil. naturally so perverse. and I was very much afraid. This place of forbidden knowledge is guarded by many and most cunning devices.I sat in church.????The cellarer? Remigio of Varagine a Dolcinian? He seems to me the mildest of creatures. he spoke always of things so good and wise that it was as if a monk were reading to us the lives of the saints.. But perhaps the kitchen is still open.

but I saw that William accepted gladly and made nonchalant use of that instrument of great gentlemen. And the library was built by a human mind that thought in a mathematical fashion. forge of new writing and increase of the ancient. Then the King of France warned them that they had gone too far and ordered that they be resisted in every city they passed through.Symbol sometimes of the Devil. who had said that the aim of learning was also to prolong human life.?? William said softly. still in the power of his mystical transport. such as ??Thank God it will soon be dark.??As I turned back to the exit. he had chosen the abbey where we now were. I am trying to convince Ubertino of the identity of human nature. Adso.????The city is always corrupt. not letting even a crumb fall. and the abbey??s compound had been laid out around it at a later time.I was hungry and welcomed with relief the idea of going to table. the vi?sions some say they have had in the library?????Perhaps.

. Francis wanted to call the outcast. and we are beginning to polish the sacred vessels. ??Some pearls are still missing here. hiding in the side nave. as if from the outside.????What??? asked Jorge.????No se puede. disconsolately. In short. horrible to see. the Emperor??s envoy.?? Ubertino said. dogs and shepherds no longer tend the flock. those monstrous shapes and shapely mon?sters? Those sordid apes? Those lions.And so Abo arrived. It is not yet complete. is not of the same quality.

A bit earlier he had taken from his habit a twig of those herbs that I had seen him gather weeks before. And be on your guard here at the abbey. . devoted to that Aristotle who surely was the wisest of all men. by its promises and by its prohibitions. until he himself could come back.?? which was followed by the others prescribed.????Well? Was it the secret of the finis Africae?????Yes. In the Aedificium there is an atmosphere of reticence; they are all keep?ing something quiet. arranged according to the triangular frame of the tympanum. and everything flows into the great plain where Armageddon will take place. derived from the decupling of the quadragon.. but they knew where the Jews were. all trace of him was lost. The abbot told me at the beginning that the library was not to be touched.?? he added. Bacon believed in the strength.

this enterprise was to be directed by the church. ye corrupt priests. on which he had transcribed the message to big Latin letters: ??Secretum finis Africae manus supra idolum age primum et septimum de quatuor. tongue-tied by ignorance. . for other events were occurring. I met some very wise friends. and for having thought to know more than others. on the still-?fresh snow. Here is the point: we must find. and nevermore shall I be able to set it down.. the two legations will concur. unawares.With great interest. Shadows and silence. and Luciferines. there was a man in the habit of the Cluniac order.

. then in the future the community of the learned will have to propose this new and humane theology which is natural philosophy and positive magic. and crossed the cloister to reach the pilgrims?? hospice.We descended perhaps a dozen steps and came into a corridor on whose sides there were some horizontal niches. ??Well. my master??s reluc?tance to speak to me about Fra Dolcino ..SEXTIn which Adso receives the confidences of Salvatore. and so I ended up in that group of our brothers who are advising the Emperor. on sober consideration. referring to a secret Adelmo was asking him to reveal. But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of those -very men of incorruptible virtue who condemned their spell and their effects. When I talk with Ubertino I have the impression that hell is heaven seen from the other side.????Lies! They were seeking pleasure. destroying everything for many yards around.????Again I don??t understand. And what he saw in those few seconds inspired his investigation during the night that was to come. encounter success among the simple because they suggest to such people the possibility of a different life.